December 1, 2025 • 28 mins
Black-Eyed Kids & Men In Black: The Connection - Part 1
Episode 463 | December 1, 2025
In Tonight’s Episode of Paranormal Mysteries...
I’ll be diving back into the topic of Black-Eyed Kids and the Men In Black, and whether the two might be somehow connected, and possibly even originating from the same place. I’ll also be sharing some new experiences with these bizarre entities that I think you’ll enjoy.
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Episode 463 | December 1, 2025
In Tonight’s Episode of Paranormal Mysteries...
I’ll be diving back into the topic of Black-Eyed Kids and the Men In Black, and whether the two might be somehow connected, and possibly even originating from the same place. I’ll also be sharing some new experiences with these bizarre entities that I think you’ll enjoy.
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- Mysterious Universe
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2025/11/The-Potentially-Shared-and-Unexplained-Agenda-of-the-Black-Eyed-Children-and-the-Men-In-Black-/
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Tonight's episode is brought to you by my newest supporter, Dave.
Thank you for making the show possible. Tonight, I'll be
diving back into the topic of black eyed kids and
the men in Black, and whether or not the two
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might be somehow connected and possibly even originating from the
same place. I'll also be sharing some new experiences with
these bizarre entities that I think you'll enjoy, So please
join me as I journey down the path of the unexplained.
I'm your host, Nick Ryan, and this is Paranormal Mysteries.
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I've always found the phenomena of black eyed kids and
the men in black fascinating, and after searching and sharing
countless reports, I have begun noticing similarities in some of
the cases. Sometimes the similarities are small, like the way
both entities seem to appear out of nowhere and then
disappear when the eyewitness decides to look for them after
their encounter has ended. Sometimes, though, the connection is far
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more obvious, and I'm reminded of a particular report which
I'll be retelling later, where the eyewitness claims that after
their encounter with the two black eyed kids, they saw
both children get into an old black sedan that was
apparently driven by two men that fit the description of
the men in black. If this report is actually genuine,
it could mean that both of these entities, for lack
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of a better term, are indeed associated in one way
or another. Are they working together or is one possibly
in control of the other. Either way, I'm interested in
learning more and maybe tonight's article will help shed some
light on this mystery, or perhaps even spark a memory
in someone listening, and if so, I would love to
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hear about your experience. Tonight's article comes from Mysterious Universe
and was written by author Marcus Louth. After reading through it,
I recognized a couple of reports that I've already shared
with you in previous episodes, but the context in which
they are documented is important, so I've decided to include them.
Even more intriguing are the reports that I hadn't heard
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about before, which is why I just had to share
it with all of you. As always, if you'd like
to read the full article for yourself, which I highly recommend,
I've included a link to it in the show notes.
The article is called the Potentially Shared and Unexplained Agenda
of the Black Eyed Children and the Men in Black.
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As the Internet was rolled out across the planet during
the nineteen nineties and into the twenty first century, many
tales that would have likely remained localized and essentially hidden
from the wider public came to the surface. Undoubtedly, one
of the more intriguing, if unsettling, of these is accounts
of the Black Eyed Children. What is interesting, however, is
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that these encounters with these strange entities are remarkably similar
to encounters with men in Black, who themselves appear to
stretch back through history. We might ask, then, if the
Black Eyed Children are just a different manifestation of the
Men in Black, perhaps just repackaged for the modern age.
If this is the case, then we should ask why
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what are these strange creatures and why do they have
such an interest in interacting with humanity. Indeed, both of
these strange entities appear to share traits with other legendary figures,
such as vampires and their need to be invited into
a building before they can even enter it, and many
people who have encountered either state that they believe that
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they appear to get weaker the longer the respective interactions
go on, almost as if they are struggling to maintain
their Moreover, those who have reported interactions with either of
these strange figures have stated how they felt an overwhelming
and largely unexplainable sense of fear in their presence, almost
as if these beings themselves were placing that fear into
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their consciousness. Of course, the Men in Black are seemingly
connected to the UFO phenomenon, but fur their study into
this group appears to suggest a much more nuanced organization
and agenda, an agenda that by and large remains as
much a mystery today as it did when people begin
reporting encounters with them. Before we explore some of the
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most disturbing encounters with the Men in Black, we will
start with just some of the equally disturbing cases of
encounters with black eyed children. And while these encounters didn't
become widespread until the nineteen nineties and early two thousands,
with the arrival of the Internet, like the Men in Black,
researchers have uncovered encounters with them going back centuries. Indeed,
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some have suggested that the black eyed children are extraterrestrials
in another guise, while others say there is something more
demonic about them. One thing is certain, though encounters with
these bizarre entities are some of the most unsettling on record. Arguably,
the first account with the black eyed children to gain
widespread traction was that of a journalist with the Abilene
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Reporter News, Brian Bethel, who had a particularly distressing encounter
with these bizarre creatures in nineteen ninety six in Abilene, Texas.
He reported that on the night in question, he had
made his way to the location of Camelot Communications, which
at the time was one of the area's original Internet providers,
in order to pay his bill. The location of the
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Camelot building was close to a movie theater, and Bethel
was using the light of the theatre's marquee to write
his check, which he planned a place in Camelot's night dropbox.
It was as he was doing so that a sudden
knock on the driver's side window shook him to at tip.
When he turned to face the window, there were two
young boys, each dressed in a hooded pullover, standing outside
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his car, who he guessed were aged between nine and
twelve years old. To begin with, he thought the youngsters
were going to ask him for money, so he opened
the driver's side window just a little bit. As soon
as he did so, however, he was immediately gripped by
an incomprehensible, soul racking fear, which was something he couldn't explain.
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He described the older boy as being somewhat suave, with
olive skin and dark curly hair, and who appeared to
be the spokesman of the two. The other boy, the
younger one, was a redheaded, pale skinned, freckled young man
who stayed very much in the background. The older boy
then proceeded to explain to Bethel that they had planned
to see the movie Mortal Combat, but that they had
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left their money at their mother's house, and he asked
Bethel if he could drive them back to their house
to pick it up. Bethel would later say that this
was plausible enough, but as this was going on and
his irrational fear continued to grow inside of him, he
elaborated that he had no reason to be frightened of
these boys, but he was terribly It was at this
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point that Bethel glanced up at the movie theater signs
before turning his attention back to the digital clock on
the car's dashboard. He then realized that the last showing
of the evening had already started, meaning that even if
he did agree to give them a ride to their
mother's house, by the time they returned, the movie would
have almost been finished. Despite this, the spokesman assured Bethel
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that the journey wouldn't take that long. Bethel again hesitated,
and this is when the surreal scenario turned beyond terrifying,
and Bethel would say this, in the short time I
had broken the gaze of the spokesman, something had changed
and my mind exploded in a vortex of all consuming terror.
Both boys stared directly at me with coal black eyes,
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soulless orbs, like two great swaths of starless night. Despite
the intense sphere that now fully gripped his body, Bethel
did his best to remain outwardly calm, while at the
same time offering the first excuse that came to his mind,
and then winding up the window before starting the car's
engine and putting the vehicle into reverse. As he did so,
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the older boy banged sharply on the window before shouting
to Bethel that we can't come in unless you tell
us it's okay. Let us in. Bethel would later say
that those words, as well as the anger with which
they were spoken still echo in his mind even today.
He said in his report that he pulled away from
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the parking lot in blind fear, surprised that he didn't
hit another car as he did so. After a moment,
he looked back in the rear view mirror, and he
was beyond shocked to find that both boys were no
longer there. And he would go on to say that
even if they had run, I don't believe there was
any place they could have hidden from view that quickly.
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Just what Bethel might have actually seen or encounter remains
a point of discussion, at least to some researchers. However,
as the years went on, more and more encounters with
these bizarre and unsettling creatures surfaced. One of the earliest
encounters with the black eyed child occurred almost half a
century earlier in Virginia in nineteen fifty. The account comes
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to us from the research files of David Weatherley, with
the witness being a sixteen year old boy named Harold.
In the report, on the afternoon in question, Harold was
making his way home from school when he came across
another boy approximately the same age, leaning against a fence
next to the footpath. Harold said hello to the boy,
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but he didn't respond, Thinking the boy hadn't heard him,
Harold went on his way. However, a moment later, the
boy stepped out and stated, I want to go to
your house. You're going to take me to your house.
It was when the boy turned to face Harold that
he could see that he had jet black orbs for eyes,
and they had no v white at all. Harold immediately
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thought that he should run away from the boy, but
no sooner had the thought entered his mind than the
boy spoke to him again, stating, no, you do not
run away from me. You're going to take me to
your house. Harold stared at this menacing youth a moment
longer before turning and sprinting away as fast as he could.
He didn't stop until he finally arrived home. He recalled, however,
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that as he was running, he could hear a piercing
scream similar to a bobcat. This was a sound that
he was almost certain came from the black eyed boy.
He immediately told his parents about the encounter, who, despite
the bizarre nature of the claims, believed what he was saying.
So much so, in fact, that his father retrieved his
gun and went in search of the assailant who had
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threatened his son. Meanwhile, his mother, who was convinced that
Harold had encountered the devil himself, took Harold to a
local priest so that he could be cleansed of the
evil influence. Whatever it was that Harold and Go encountered
that afternoon as he made his way home remains a
complete mystery. However, there are many more encounters for us
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to explore. Around a quarter of a century later, in
the autumn of nineteen seventy four, on the other side
of the Atlantic, in the small village of Ain in
the Piccardi region of France, another disturbing encounter unfolded, which
was also documented by David Weatherley. On this particular afternoon
at around three p m. Eyewitnesses Alan G. And Patrick V.
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Were driving through the small village when they drove past
a rather ominous looking house, or more to the point,
five ominous figures that were standing in the garden of
the property. And moreover, these figures appeared to be staring
directly at the two motorists. The two witnesses stared at
these figures for several moments, noting that each of them
wore the same identical garments. Each of them was around
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four to five feet tall, and each had long hair
down to their waist. Most disturbing of al, though, was
each of the figures had solid black eyes that filled
the two men with fear. When the figures began beckoning
the two men to enter the property, this fear increased,
and the men put their car in motion and drove
away as quickly as they could. After calming themselves, the
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two men returned to the property a short time later,
but the figures were no longer there. They did, though,
happened to speak to a neighbor of the strange property,
who informed them that the strange figures were often seen
in their yard, simply staring out in an effort to
entice anyone who might be passing by into the garden.
In more recent times, in Ohio, in July twenty ten,
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a worker at a data center had an encounter with
two black eyed children while taking a cigarette break on
a night shift. On the night in question, at a
little after five a m. The witness was smoking his
cigarette just outside the door of the building when he
suddenly noticed what appeared to be two teenage boys standing
across the street. Much like the other encounters we have explored,
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as as soon as he noticed them, he felt an
unexplained sense of anxiety and uneasiness wash over him. When
he realized the two figures were seemingly staring back at him,
this uneasiness morphed into intense fear. He quickly finished his
cigarette and he went back inside the building. Once inside,
the fear began to lessen, and ten minutes later he
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was back to work and the encounter was largely gone
from his mind. Then, however, the intercom on the front
of the building, which was the same place where he
was smoking his cigarette, was pressed. He immediately turned to
the monitors, and on the screens he could see the
two boys that had just been standing on the other
side of the street. He then spoke into the intercom,
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asking the boys what they wanted, but no response came,
But then one of the boys mentioned that he should
come outside to see them. He remained where he was
and telling the boys that they should leave. He then
turned away from the monitor to return to work, hopeful
the two boys would realize he was not going to
venture outside and would go away on their own. However,
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when he turned back to the monitors several moments later,
both of the boys were staring directly into the camera. Moreover,
he couldn't shake the notion that they were staring through
the monitor directly at him, even though he knew this
wasn't possible. He tried to return to his work, doing
his best to ignore the two boys, feeling sure that
they would get bored and leave. However, when they were
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still there ten minutes later, he decided to go to
the door and confront them. He approached the front door
of the building, but before he opened the door, he
looked through the one way glass to get a close
up look at the disturbing pair. When he did, though,
he could see the two youngsters didn't look like normal
teenage boys at all. He could now see that where
their eyes were was nothing but total blackness. He took
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a moment to process what he was seeing and once
more decided to confront the two boys and tell them
to leave or he would call the police. But as
soon as he opened the front door, it seemed that
the two two boys had read his thoughts, with one
of them saying to him that will not be necessary.
We simply need to use your phone. Can you let
us in? However, the eyewitness refused, telling the two boys
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that only employees were allowed in the building, before then
returning inside and pulling the door firmly shut. Once back
at his desk, he took another look at the monitors.
He could see that one of the boys had made
his way to the other side of the street once again.
The other one, though, was still outside the front door
of the building and staring into the security camera as
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if he was looking directly at him. The witness eventually
called the police, but by the time they arrived at
around six am, each of the boys had vanished. Before
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be right back. After these brief messages only two years later,
in November of twenty twelve, in northeast Louisiana, a particularly
unsettling encounter with black eyed children unfolded. The account came
to light in September of twenty fifteen when the witness
spoke of the incident on Darkness Radio. According to the report,
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at around three a m. On the night in question,
the witness was in the middle of their night shift
at a twenty four hour gas station when the area
experienced a sudden power outage, plunging them into complete darkness.
Using the light on his mobile phone to see, he
made his way to the backup generator and powered it on.
Within moments, the back up up lighting came on, which
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lit up the register and the parking lot, although the
rest of the gas station, like the surrounding area, remained
in total darkness. As there had been high winds in
the region. The witness assumed this was the cause of
the blackout, and so he returned back to the register
and waited for the power to be restored. However, as
he stared blankly out the window, he suddenly noticed something
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moving at the edge of the darkness that surrounded the
gas station. He immediately focused on the movement, eventually making
out what appeared to be three young children riding bikes,
whether coincidence or not. As soon as he recognized them
as children, two of them brought their bikes to a
sudden stop and got off of them, heading straight for
the locked door of the gas station. Instead of trying
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to open the door, however, the two children, a boy
and a girl, each age between nine and twelve years old,
simply stood there staring inside. Although he was beginning to
feel a little bit more unsettled at this point, the
witness made his way to the front door, and rather
than coming inside, though the two children simply stood there
completely motionless, the witness then asked the two youngsters if
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they were okay, pointing out that it was extremely late
for them to be out on their own. Instead of
answering them, however, the young girl asked if she could
use his phone. He immediately reached for his mobile phone
and went to hand it to her, but when he did,
she refused to take it, and she said, no, I
need a real one, and then motioned to the land
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line that was on the wall. It was at that
point that the witness caught a glimpse of the young
girl's eyes, noticing immediately that they were completely black. As
soon as he saw the jet black orbs, the witness
slammed the door shut and locked it. Through the locked door,
the younger girl asked to use the phone. Trying his
best to stay calm and not show any signs of fear,
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the witness said that the children should go home and
that it was late, but instead of doing as he suggested,
the two children remained at the doorway, staring in through
the glass. Then, after several moments, they both turned around
and made their way back to their bikes, and joining
the third child, who had remained on the outskirts of
the gas station parking lot. A moment later, all three
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of the youngsters took off into the darkness on their bikes.
The following morning, when his shift was finished, the witness
reported the disturbing incident to his manager, asking him to
look at the CCTV footage to see if it had
picked up the strange children. However, because of the power outage,
the CCTV had stopped recording, and consequently no footage of
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the encounter was captured. Of course, we might ask if
the power outage was actually caused by the three strange
youngsters or whether it was nothing but a coincidence. Two
years after that, in September of twenty fourteen, in the
United Kingdom, an article appeared in several national newspapers regarding
several encounters with a black eyed girl of Kennick Chase,
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which was something that UK researcher Lee Brickley had been
investigating for several years. According to Brickley's report, a local
woman was on the chase when she heard a sudden
piercing scream ring out, leading her to believe that a
young child was in trouble. She immediately made her way
to where the sound was coming from, although she couldn't
see anything out of the ordinary. Then, however, she got
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a sudden feeling that someone or something was behind her.
She spun around immediately, and there behind her was a
young girl wearing a white dress with her hands completely
covering her eyes, and the witness described it as looking
as if she was waiting for a birthday cake. The
woman watched the girl for several seconds, who remained completely
still and silent. Cautiously, the woman approached the youngster, asking
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her if she was okay. As she approached, instead of
answering her. However, the girl simply removed her hands from
her eyes and stared straight at the woman. The witness
would later say this, that's when I saw they were
completely black, no iris, no whites, nothing. Feeling beyond terrified
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at the surreal scene before her, the woman ran from
the scene as fast as she could. As she did so,
she glanced behind her, worried that this strange figure would
be following her. However, to her shock, the girl was
nowhere to be seen, almost as if she had vanished
into thin air. Interestingly, Brickley's aunt had a very similar
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encounter when she was only a teenager in nineteen eighty two.
According to what he informed the newspaper, his aunt was
on the chase when she heard a young girl calling
for help. When she turned in the direction the calls
were coming from, she could see a young girl wearing
a white dress who appeared to be running the direction
away from her. Worried about the youngster, Brickley zont ran
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after her. Eventually catching up to her. She put a
hand on the young girl's shoulder in an effort to
turn her around and check to see if she was okay. However,
when the young girl faced her, Brickley's aunt could see
that where her eyes should have been, there were just
two jas black orbs. The pair stared at each other
for several seconds before the girl turned around once more
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and ran in the opposite direction and eventually disappearing into
the distance. Incidentally, Kennick Chase is a hot spot of
such activity, with reports of everything from the black eyed
girl to UFOs and even cryptids. Without a doubt, one
of the most disturbing encounters with black eyed children occurred
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one bitterly cold night in January of twenty sixteen in Vermont.
On the night in question, in the middle of a blizzard,
an unnamed husband and wife were awoken suddenly by the
sounds of knocking at their front door. As perplexed as
they were, they both got out of bed, wondering who
would be knocking at their door in such atrocious conditions
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and at such a late hour. Perhaps, they reasoned someone
had broken down outside, and theirs was the first house
they came to. Before opening the door, though, the woman
peered outside, and although she was able to see two
said of footprints in the freshly fallen snow, she couldn't
see any sign of a car on the road. Then
the knocking at the door came, and although she couldn't
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explain why, she suddenly felt a sense of unease. It
was at this point that she insured her husband was
beside her, and as the knocking came again, he made
his way to the front door and prepared to open it.
There on the doorstep was not a stranded motorist, but
two young children, a boy and a girl, each around
eight years old. As soon as the woman saw the
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two children, the unease in her increased, and she even
began to feel a genuine sense of fear. At the
same time, she noticed how inadequately dressed they were for
the brutal snowy conditions, and despite the growing unease inside her,
she invited the pair inside. They accepted the invitation, and
she promptly led them into the living room. Strangely, and
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perhaps something that should have been taken as a warning,
as the children walked into the house, the couple's too
caretz suddenly appeared extremely agitated, with one of them hissing
at the youngsters. However, she brushed it off as nothing
to worry about, and she told the children to make
themselves comfortable on the sofa, asking them if they would
like some hot chocolate. However, instead of answering her, the
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pair simply said, our parents will be here soon. It
was only later, after the pair had left that the
woman realized that whatever she said or asked them, this
was the only response they would give, as if they
couldn't speak English, but had managed to recall this particular phrase.
At this point, the woman left the room and went
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into the kitchen to prepare some hot chocolate, but when
she returned around a minute later, the woman noticed for
the first time that where the children's eyes should have been,
there were just two jet black balls, similar to two
gigantic pupils. Upon seeing this, she stared at them in
shock for several moments, eventually managing to compose herself despite
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the increasing fear that she felt regarding the entire situation. Then,
both of the children stood up and asked in unison
if they could use the bathroom. The woman then replied
that they could, and she told them that it was
at the end of the hall. The two children then
began walking in that direction without responding, and whether it
was coincidence or not, as soon as they did, the
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woman's husband's nose began to bleed. Then a moment after that,
the power in the house went out, plunging everyone into darkness.
It was then that she realized, as she was reaching
for a tissue in this limited light, the two children
were standing at the end of the hall and silently
watching them. After several seconds, the two children suddenly came
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to life, both exclaiming, our parents are here. Before making
their way to the front door. They opened it and
stopped outside into the bitterly cold, icy night. The woman
headed toward the front door, eager to shut it as
quickly as she could. Before she did so, however, she
could see the two children stepping into a black car,
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next to which stood two mysterious and ominous looking men,
each dressed in the same style dark suit, as if
they were part of a security unit. She was almost
positive there had been no car outside their property when
the children had arrived, and she didn't recall seeing the
headlights of the vehicle approaching the house, which, given there
was no light inside the property, she surely would have seen.
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When the two children were inside the car. The two
men also got in and it moved away, disappearing into
the night as soon as it did so, the power
in the house suddenly came back on. In a bizarre
and tragic twist, both witnesses experienced ill health in the
weeks and months that followed, with both of them regularly
having nosebleeds, and although they couldn't explain it, both were
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certain that this sudden downturn in their health was a
direct consequence of their encounter with the two strange children.
It's interesting how this last experience seems to show a
direct connection between these sentities. And in Part two, I'll
be turning my attention to the men in black and
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several reports involving their origins. I hope you'll join me,
and in the meantime, if you'd like to submit your
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Until next time, thank you again for being here, and
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I hope you'll join me for my next episode as
we continue our journey into the unexplained right here on
Paranormal Mysteries. Sh
Tonight's episode is brought to you by my newest supporter, Dave.
Thank you for making the show possible. Tonight, I'll be
diving back into the topic of black eyed kids and
the men in Black, and whether or not the two
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might be somehow connected and possibly even originating from the
same place. I'll also be sharing some new experiences with
these bizarre entities that I think you'll enjoy, So please
join me as I journey down the path of the unexplained.
I'm your host, Nick Ryan, and this is Paranormal Mysteries.
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I've always found the phenomena of black eyed kids and
the men in black fascinating, and after searching and sharing
countless reports, I have begun noticing similarities in some of
the cases. Sometimes the similarities are small, like the way
both entities seem to appear out of nowhere and then
disappear when the eyewitness decides to look for them after
their encounter has ended. Sometimes, though, the connection is far
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more obvious, and I'm reminded of a particular report which
I'll be retelling later, where the eyewitness claims that after
their encounter with the two black eyed kids, they saw
both children get into an old black sedan that was
apparently driven by two men that fit the description of
the men in black. If this report is actually genuine,
it could mean that both of these entities, for lack
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of a better term, are indeed associated in one way
or another. Are they working together or is one possibly
in control of the other. Either way, I'm interested in
learning more and maybe tonight's article will help shed some
light on this mystery, or perhaps even spark a memory
in someone listening, and if so, I would love to
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hear about your experience. Tonight's article comes from Mysterious Universe
and was written by author Marcus Louth. After reading through it,
I recognized a couple of reports that I've already shared
with you in previous episodes, but the context in which
they are documented is important, so I've decided to include them.
Even more intriguing are the reports that I hadn't heard
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about before, which is why I just had to share
it with all of you. As always, if you'd like
to read the full article for yourself, which I highly recommend,
I've included a link to it in the show notes.
The article is called the Potentially Shared and Unexplained Agenda
of the Black Eyed Children and the Men in Black.
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As the Internet was rolled out across the planet during
the nineteen nineties and into the twenty first century, many
tales that would have likely remained localized and essentially hidden
from the wider public came to the surface. Undoubtedly, one
of the more intriguing, if unsettling, of these is accounts
of the Black Eyed Children. What is interesting, however, is
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that these encounters with these strange entities are remarkably similar
to encounters with men in Black, who themselves appear to
stretch back through history. We might ask, then, if the
Black Eyed Children are just a different manifestation of the
Men in Black, perhaps just repackaged for the modern age.
If this is the case, then we should ask why
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what are these strange creatures and why do they have
such an interest in interacting with humanity. Indeed, both of
these strange entities appear to share traits with other legendary figures,
such as vampires and their need to be invited into
a building before they can even enter it, and many
people who have encountered either state that they believe that
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they appear to get weaker the longer the respective interactions
go on, almost as if they are struggling to maintain
their Moreover, those who have reported interactions with either of
these strange figures have stated how they felt an overwhelming
and largely unexplainable sense of fear in their presence, almost
as if these beings themselves were placing that fear into
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their consciousness. Of course, the Men in Black are seemingly
connected to the UFO phenomenon, but fur their study into
this group appears to suggest a much more nuanced organization
and agenda, an agenda that by and large remains as
much a mystery today as it did when people begin
reporting encounters with them. Before we explore some of the
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most disturbing encounters with the Men in Black, we will
start with just some of the equally disturbing cases of
encounters with black eyed children. And while these encounters didn't
become widespread until the nineteen nineties and early two thousands,
with the arrival of the Internet, like the Men in Black,
researchers have uncovered encounters with them going back centuries. Indeed,
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some have suggested that the black eyed children are extraterrestrials
in another guise, while others say there is something more
demonic about them. One thing is certain, though encounters with
these bizarre entities are some of the most unsettling on record. Arguably,
the first account with the black eyed children to gain
widespread traction was that of a journalist with the Abilene
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Reporter News, Brian Bethel, who had a particularly distressing encounter
with these bizarre creatures in nineteen ninety six in Abilene, Texas.
He reported that on the night in question, he had
made his way to the location of Camelot Communications, which
at the time was one of the area's original Internet providers,
in order to pay his bill. The location of the
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Camelot building was close to a movie theater, and Bethel
was using the light of the theatre's marquee to write
his check, which he planned a place in Camelot's night dropbox.
It was as he was doing so that a sudden
knock on the driver's side window shook him to at tip.
When he turned to face the window, there were two
young boys, each dressed in a hooded pullover, standing outside
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his car, who he guessed were aged between nine and
twelve years old. To begin with, he thought the youngsters
were going to ask him for money, so he opened
the driver's side window just a little bit. As soon
as he did so, however, he was immediately gripped by
an incomprehensible, soul racking fear, which was something he couldn't explain.
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He described the older boy as being somewhat suave, with
olive skin and dark curly hair, and who appeared to
be the spokesman of the two. The other boy, the
younger one, was a redheaded, pale skinned, freckled young man
who stayed very much in the background. The older boy
then proceeded to explain to Bethel that they had planned
to see the movie Mortal Combat, but that they had
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left their money at their mother's house, and he asked
Bethel if he could drive them back to their house
to pick it up. Bethel would later say that this
was plausible enough, but as this was going on and
his irrational fear continued to grow inside of him, he
elaborated that he had no reason to be frightened of
these boys, but he was terribly It was at this
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point that Bethel glanced up at the movie theater signs
before turning his attention back to the digital clock on
the car's dashboard. He then realized that the last showing
of the evening had already started, meaning that even if
he did agree to give them a ride to their
mother's house, by the time they returned, the movie would
have almost been finished. Despite this, the spokesman assured Bethel
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that the journey wouldn't take that long. Bethel again hesitated,
and this is when the surreal scenario turned beyond terrifying,
and Bethel would say this, in the short time I
had broken the gaze of the spokesman, something had changed
and my mind exploded in a vortex of all consuming terror.
Both boys stared directly at me with coal black eyes,
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soulless orbs, like two great swaths of starless night. Despite
the intense sphere that now fully gripped his body, Bethel
did his best to remain outwardly calm, while at the
same time offering the first excuse that came to his mind,
and then winding up the window before starting the car's
engine and putting the vehicle into reverse. As he did so,
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the older boy banged sharply on the window before shouting
to Bethel that we can't come in unless you tell
us it's okay. Let us in. Bethel would later say
that those words, as well as the anger with which
they were spoken still echo in his mind even today.
He said in his report that he pulled away from
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the parking lot in blind fear, surprised that he didn't
hit another car as he did so. After a moment,
he looked back in the rear view mirror, and he
was beyond shocked to find that both boys were no
longer there. And he would go on to say that
even if they had run, I don't believe there was
any place they could have hidden from view that quickly.
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Just what Bethel might have actually seen or encounter remains
a point of discussion, at least to some researchers. However,
as the years went on, more and more encounters with
these bizarre and unsettling creatures surfaced. One of the earliest
encounters with the black eyed child occurred almost half a
century earlier in Virginia in nineteen fifty. The account comes
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to us from the research files of David Weatherley, with
the witness being a sixteen year old boy named Harold.
In the report, on the afternoon in question, Harold was
making his way home from school when he came across
another boy approximately the same age, leaning against a fence
next to the footpath. Harold said hello to the boy,
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but he didn't respond, Thinking the boy hadn't heard him,
Harold went on his way. However, a moment later, the
boy stepped out and stated, I want to go to
your house. You're going to take me to your house.
It was when the boy turned to face Harold that
he could see that he had jet black orbs for eyes,
and they had no v white at all. Harold immediately
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thought that he should run away from the boy, but
no sooner had the thought entered his mind than the
boy spoke to him again, stating, no, you do not
run away from me. You're going to take me to
your house. Harold stared at this menacing youth a moment
longer before turning and sprinting away as fast as he could.
He didn't stop until he finally arrived home. He recalled, however,
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that as he was running, he could hear a piercing
scream similar to a bobcat. This was a sound that
he was almost certain came from the black eyed boy.
He immediately told his parents about the encounter, who, despite
the bizarre nature of the claims, believed what he was saying.
So much so, in fact, that his father retrieved his
gun and went in search of the assailant who had
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threatened his son. Meanwhile, his mother, who was convinced that
Harold had encountered the devil himself, took Harold to a
local priest so that he could be cleansed of the
evil influence. Whatever it was that Harold and Go encountered
that afternoon as he made his way home remains a
complete mystery. However, there are many more encounters for us
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to explore. Around a quarter of a century later, in
the autumn of nineteen seventy four, on the other side
of the Atlantic, in the small village of Ain in
the Piccardi region of France, another disturbing encounter unfolded, which
was also documented by David Weatherley. On this particular afternoon
at around three p m. Eyewitnesses Alan G. And Patrick V.
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Were driving through the small village when they drove past
a rather ominous looking house, or more to the point,
five ominous figures that were standing in the garden of
the property. And moreover, these figures appeared to be staring
directly at the two motorists. The two witnesses stared at
these figures for several moments, noting that each of them
wore the same identical garments. Each of them was around
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four to five feet tall, and each had long hair
down to their waist. Most disturbing of al, though, was
each of the figures had solid black eyes that filled
the two men with fear. When the figures began beckoning
the two men to enter the property, this fear increased,
and the men put their car in motion and drove
away as quickly as they could. After calming themselves, the
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two men returned to the property a short time later,
but the figures were no longer there. They did, though,
happened to speak to a neighbor of the strange property,
who informed them that the strange figures were often seen
in their yard, simply staring out in an effort to
entice anyone who might be passing by into the garden.
In more recent times, in Ohio, in July twenty ten,
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a worker at a data center had an encounter with
two black eyed children while taking a cigarette break on
a night shift. On the night in question, at a
little after five a m. The witness was smoking his
cigarette just outside the door of the building when he
suddenly noticed what appeared to be two teenage boys standing
across the street. Much like the other encounters we have explored,
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as as soon as he noticed them, he felt an
unexplained sense of anxiety and uneasiness wash over him. When
he realized the two figures were seemingly staring back at him,
this uneasiness morphed into intense fear. He quickly finished his
cigarette and he went back inside the building. Once inside,
the fear began to lessen, and ten minutes later he
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was back to work and the encounter was largely gone
from his mind. Then, however, the intercom on the front
of the building, which was the same place where he
was smoking his cigarette, was pressed. He immediately turned to
the monitors, and on the screens he could see the
two boys that had just been standing on the other
side of the street. He then spoke into the intercom,
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asking the boys what they wanted, but no response came,
But then one of the boys mentioned that he should
come outside to see them. He remained where he was
and telling the boys that they should leave. He then
turned away from the monitor to return to work, hopeful
the two boys would realize he was not going to
venture outside and would go away on their own. However,
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when he turned back to the monitors several moments later,
both of the boys were staring directly into the camera. Moreover,
he couldn't shake the notion that they were staring through
the monitor directly at him, even though he knew this
wasn't possible. He tried to return to his work, doing
his best to ignore the two boys, feeling sure that
they would get bored and leave. However, when they were
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still there ten minutes later, he decided to go to
the door and confront them. He approached the front door
of the building, but before he opened the door, he
looked through the one way glass to get a close
up look at the disturbing pair. When he did, though,
he could see the two youngsters didn't look like normal
teenage boys at all. He could now see that where
their eyes were was nothing but total blackness. He took
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a moment to process what he was seeing and once
more decided to confront the two boys and tell them
to leave or he would call the police. But as
soon as he opened the front door, it seemed that
the two two boys had read his thoughts, with one
of them saying to him that will not be necessary.
We simply need to use your phone. Can you let
us in? However, the eyewitness refused, telling the two boys
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that only employees were allowed in the building, before then
returning inside and pulling the door firmly shut. Once back
at his desk, he took another look at the monitors.
He could see that one of the boys had made
his way to the other side of the street once again.
The other one, though, was still outside the front door
of the building and staring into the security camera as
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if he was looking directly at him. The witness eventually
called the police, but by the time they arrived at
around six am, each of the boys had vanished. Before
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be right back. After these brief messages only two years later,
in November of twenty twelve, in northeast Louisiana, a particularly
unsettling encounter with black eyed children unfolded. The account came
to light in September of twenty fifteen when the witness
spoke of the incident on Darkness Radio. According to the report,
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at around three a m. On the night in question,
the witness was in the middle of their night shift
at a twenty four hour gas station when the area
experienced a sudden power outage, plunging them into complete darkness.
Using the light on his mobile phone to see, he
made his way to the backup generator and powered it on.
Within moments, the back up up lighting came on, which
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lit up the register and the parking lot, although the
rest of the gas station, like the surrounding area, remained
in total darkness. As there had been high winds in
the region. The witness assumed this was the cause of
the blackout, and so he returned back to the register
and waited for the power to be restored. However, as
he stared blankly out the window, he suddenly noticed something
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moving at the edge of the darkness that surrounded the
gas station. He immediately focused on the movement, eventually making
out what appeared to be three young children riding bikes,
whether coincidence or not. As soon as he recognized them
as children, two of them brought their bikes to a
sudden stop and got off of them, heading straight for
the locked door of the gas station. Instead of trying
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to open the door, however, the two children, a boy
and a girl, each age between nine and twelve years old,
simply stood there staring inside. Although he was beginning to
feel a little bit more unsettled at this point, the
witness made his way to the front door, and rather
than coming inside, though the two children simply stood there
completely motionless, the witness then asked the two youngsters if
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they were okay, pointing out that it was extremely late
for them to be out on their own. Instead of
answering them, however, the young girl asked if she could
use his phone. He immediately reached for his mobile phone
and went to hand it to her, but when he did,
she refused to take it, and she said, no, I
need a real one, and then motioned to the land
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line that was on the wall. It was at that
point that the witness caught a glimpse of the young
girl's eyes, noticing immediately that they were completely black. As
soon as he saw the jet black orbs, the witness
slammed the door shut and locked it. Through the locked door,
the younger girl asked to use the phone. Trying his
best to stay calm and not show any signs of fear,
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the witness said that the children should go home and
that it was late, but instead of doing as he suggested,
the two children remained at the doorway, staring in through
the glass. Then, after several moments, they both turned around
and made their way back to their bikes, and joining
the third child, who had remained on the outskirts of
the gas station parking lot. A moment later, all three
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of the youngsters took off into the darkness on their bikes.
The following morning, when his shift was finished, the witness
reported the disturbing incident to his manager, asking him to
look at the CCTV footage to see if it had
picked up the strange children. However, because of the power outage,
the CCTV had stopped recording, and consequently no footage of
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the encounter was captured. Of course, we might ask if
the power outage was actually caused by the three strange
youngsters or whether it was nothing but a coincidence. Two
years after that, in September of twenty fourteen, in the
United Kingdom, an article appeared in several national newspapers regarding
several encounters with a black eyed girl of Kennick Chase,
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which was something that UK researcher Lee Brickley had been
investigating for several years. According to Brickley's report, a local
woman was on the chase when she heard a sudden
piercing scream ring out, leading her to believe that a
young child was in trouble. She immediately made her way
to where the sound was coming from, although she couldn't
see anything out of the ordinary. Then, however, she got
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a sudden feeling that someone or something was behind her.
She spun around immediately, and there behind her was a
young girl wearing a white dress with her hands completely
covering her eyes, and the witness described it as looking
as if she was waiting for a birthday cake. The
woman watched the girl for several seconds, who remained completely
still and silent. Cautiously, the woman approached the youngster, asking
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her if she was okay. As she approached, instead of
answering her. However, the girl simply removed her hands from
her eyes and stared straight at the woman. The witness
would later say this, that's when I saw they were
completely black, no iris, no whites, nothing. Feeling beyond terrified
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at the surreal scene before her, the woman ran from
the scene as fast as she could. As she did so,
she glanced behind her, worried that this strange figure would
be following her. However, to her shock, the girl was
nowhere to be seen, almost as if she had vanished
into thin air. Interestingly, Brickley's aunt had a very similar
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encounter when she was only a teenager in nineteen eighty two.
According to what he informed the newspaper, his aunt was
on the chase when she heard a young girl calling
for help. When she turned in the direction the calls
were coming from, she could see a young girl wearing
a white dress who appeared to be running the direction
away from her. Worried about the youngster, Brickley zont ran
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after her. Eventually catching up to her. She put a
hand on the young girl's shoulder in an effort to
turn her around and check to see if she was okay. However,
when the young girl faced her, Brickley's aunt could see
that where her eyes should have been, there were just
two jas black orbs. The pair stared at each other
for several seconds before the girl turned around once more
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and ran in the opposite direction and eventually disappearing into
the distance. Incidentally, Kennick Chase is a hot spot of
such activity, with reports of everything from the black eyed
girl to UFOs and even cryptids. Without a doubt, one
of the most disturbing encounters with black eyed children occurred
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one bitterly cold night in January of twenty sixteen in Vermont.
On the night in question, in the middle of a blizzard,
an unnamed husband and wife were awoken suddenly by the
sounds of knocking at their front door. As perplexed as
they were, they both got out of bed, wondering who
would be knocking at their door in such atrocious conditions
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and at such a late hour. Perhaps, they reasoned someone
had broken down outside, and theirs was the first house
they came to. Before opening the door, though, the woman
peered outside, and although she was able to see two
said of footprints in the freshly fallen snow, she couldn't
see any sign of a car on the road. Then
the knocking at the door came, and although she couldn't
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explain why, she suddenly felt a sense of unease. It
was at this point that she insured her husband was
beside her, and as the knocking came again, he made
his way to the front door and prepared to open it.
There on the doorstep was not a stranded motorist, but
two young children, a boy and a girl, each around
eight years old. As soon as the woman saw the
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two children, the unease in her increased, and she even
began to feel a genuine sense of fear. At the
same time, she noticed how inadequately dressed they were for
the brutal snowy conditions, and despite the growing unease inside her,
she invited the pair inside. They accepted the invitation, and
she promptly led them into the living room. Strangely, and
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perhaps something that should have been taken as a warning,
as the children walked into the house, the couple's too
caretz suddenly appeared extremely agitated, with one of them hissing
at the youngsters. However, she brushed it off as nothing
to worry about, and she told the children to make
themselves comfortable on the sofa, asking them if they would
like some hot chocolate. However, instead of answering her, the
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pair simply said, our parents will be here soon. It
was only later, after the pair had left that the
woman realized that whatever she said or asked them, this
was the only response they would give, as if they
couldn't speak English, but had managed to recall this particular phrase.
At this point, the woman left the room and went
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into the kitchen to prepare some hot chocolate, but when
she returned around a minute later, the woman noticed for
the first time that where the children's eyes should have been,
there were just two jet black balls, similar to two
gigantic pupils. Upon seeing this, she stared at them in
shock for several moments, eventually managing to compose herself despite
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the increasing fear that she felt regarding the entire situation. Then,
both of the children stood up and asked in unison
if they could use the bathroom. The woman then replied
that they could, and she told them that it was
at the end of the hall. The two children then
began walking in that direction without responding, and whether it
was coincidence or not, as soon as they did, the
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woman's husband's nose began to bleed. Then a moment after that,
the power in the house went out, plunging everyone into darkness.
It was then that she realized, as she was reaching
for a tissue in this limited light, the two children
were standing at the end of the hall and silently
watching them. After several seconds, the two children suddenly came
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to life, both exclaiming, our parents are here. Before making
their way to the front door. They opened it and
stopped outside into the bitterly cold, icy night. The woman
headed toward the front door, eager to shut it as
quickly as she could. Before she did so, however, she
could see the two children stepping into a black car,
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next to which stood two mysterious and ominous looking men,
each dressed in the same style dark suit, as if
they were part of a security unit. She was almost
positive there had been no car outside their property when
the children had arrived, and she didn't recall seeing the
headlights of the vehicle approaching the house, which, given there
was no light inside the property, she surely would have seen.
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When the two children were inside the car. The two
men also got in and it moved away, disappearing into
the night as soon as it did so, the power
in the house suddenly came back on. In a bizarre
and tragic twist, both witnesses experienced ill health in the
weeks and months that followed, with both of them regularly
having nosebleeds, and although they couldn't explain it, both were
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certain that this sudden downturn in their health was a
direct consequence of their encounter with the two strange children.
It's interesting how this last experience seems to show a
direct connection between these sentities. And in Part two, I'll
be turning my attention to the men in black and
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several reports involving their origins. I hope you'll join me,
and in the meantime, if you'd like to submit your
experience or learn more about supporting what I do, you
can find all my contact and support information in the
show notes and of course at Paranormal Mysteries podcast dot com.
Until next time, thank you again for being here, and
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I hope you'll join me for my next episode as
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